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ments of war with us. We made them a present of 

 two circular tin plates^ with Mr. Kennedy's initials 

 stamped upon them^ and chains to hang- them 

 round the neck j we also g-ave them a few fish-hooks, 

 and they accepted our presents with g-reat demon- 

 strations of pleasure. We made sig-ns for them to 

 sit down about 200 j^ards from the spot where the 

 horses and sheep were being* landed, and marking" a 

 line upon the sand we made them understand that 

 they were not to cross it to approach us. One of 

 our party was placed among'st them to enforce this 

 regulation, which he did with httle difficulty, al- 

 though they expressed g-reat curiosity as to various 

 articles broug"ht on shore fi^om the ship. 



These natives appeared to be very fine strong- 

 men, varying* much in intellig'ence and disposition. 

 I entered into such conversation with them as we 

 were enabled to hold, and I soon found that while 

 some were eag-erlv anxious to learn the names of 

 different articles and their uses, others were per- 

 fectly indifi'erent about them. 



We pitched our tents about two hundred 3'ards 

 from the beach, forming* a square, with the sheep- 

 fold in the centre. Mr. Kennedy came on shore in 

 the morning' to superintend the arrangements, and 

 after giving the necessary directions and instruc- 

 tions, returned to the ship. The party left ashore 

 in charge consisted of myself. Wall, Dunn, Car- 

 penter, and Douglas. Our provisions were supplied 

 from the ship, in order that no time might be lost in 



